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Title
Men loading fire wood at a harbor, Monkey Bay, Malawi, 1891
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1891
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Die Domira in Monkey-Bay bei Ausreise der ersten Nyassa-Missionare 1891. Brennholz für den Dampfer wird eingeladen. Mr. Urquhard(?), Maschinist." ("The Domira at Monkey Bay during the departure of the first missionaries to Nyasa 1891. Fire wood for the steamer is loaded. Mr. Urquhard(?), machinist."). View of a steamer on Lake Nyasa in front of a mountainous cape. In the foreground: African men standing behind a huge pile of wooden logs and a boat on which a European man is standing in between two Africans.
Cf. photo no. 290. -- Parts of the photo have been retouched with white and grey paint.
Type
image
Format
negative no. 290, 5951, 6817
colored slide no. 290
photographic prints, 15.2 x 11.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11030 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-05951
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11030
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-05951.jpg
Subject
Lakes
Ships
Travel
Workers
Group portraits
Time Period
1891
Place
Africa
Malawi
Monkey Bay
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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